Word: wondrousness
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...questions. 'Am I going to have an I.V., an external monitor, an enema?' They set down guidelines. It causes minor confrontations. They're overly prepared." Says William Simon, professor of sociology at the University of Houston: "The underside of this situation is that these are interesting women. They are wondrous products of the culture of narcissism. They want the best of everything?best marriages, best careers, best children. Unfortunately, life requires that we make choices. The kind of child rearing they're going to engage in, with a great deal of child care, handing the kid back and forth...
Having developed tuberculosis of the larynx in the last few months of his life, he stopped eating, effectively becoming the hunger artist he had created in one of his most famous and revealing stories. But yet he took pleasure in other people's pleasure, and in a somehow wondrous bit of real-life symbolism, asked other people to take deep draughts of water and beer in front of him. Kafka never hated the world like he hated himself, and his endless capacity for empathy is for Hayman, one of the earmarks of his genius...
...pulse, no blood pressure and no breath left in a body that was already "very cold to touch," according to Dr. Daryl Isaacs, who was in charge of the emergency room. Yet five minutes later, Thomas' heartbeat was restored, a recovery that Isaacs described as "the most wondrous thing we've ever experienced...
After awakening from eight hours of surgery, Thomas told a story about his "death" that was no less wondrous. The normally down-to-earth Brooklyn youth remembered floating into a dark void. "I was going some place, and then I saw my brother," says Thomas, meaning his brother Christopher, who had died in a 1979 car accident. "He put his two big hands on my shoulders and pushed me back, saying, 'You can't come here; there's no room...
...been the Reagan Administration's glowing star, casting light on all the murky, mystifying tax and spending statistics that his wondrous computers at the Office of Management and Budget continually cranked out. He was the farm-bred, Harvard-educated wizard who would transform those numbers into the magic by which Ronald Reagan's economic recovery program would prove a smashing success. Even David Stockman's adversaries admired his effectiveness as a promoter of the Reagan cause. At his regular breakfast last week with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Chief Economic Adviser Murray Weidenbaum, Stockman was delighted...